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• Dilbert: You joined the "Flat Earth Society?" Dogbert: I believe the earth must be flat. There is no good evidence to support the so-called "round earth theory." Dilbert: I think Christopher Columbus would disagree. Dogbert: How convenient that your best witness is dead.

  Scott Adams

  Believe, Science, Thinking

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• I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

  Harland Miller

  Art, Thinking, Truism

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss rekindles desire, makes people have conversations they haven't had in years, takes them out of their contrived illusion of safety.

  Esther Perel

  Powerful, Loss, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Funny stories on set - there are thousands of them, but they are only funny to the people who were on the movies. You start to have inside jokes and gallows humor. You have all kinds of things you laugh at, but as soon as you tell somebody, the joke falls flat because they don't know the context of it.

  Bruce Campbell

  Fall, People, Laughing

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. February 11, 2009.

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• I've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.

  Willem Dafoe

  Comedy, Made, Feels

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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• If zero percent of the elites support something, very low chance it's going to pass, if 100% support something, very high chance it's going to pass. Same thing for organized interest groups. But for the average voter, it's a flat line. Which says it doesn't matter whether zero percent of the public believes something or 100% of the average voters believe something - it doesn't affect the probability that that thing will be enacted.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Zero, Believe, Average

  "'Your Representative Doesn't Give a Shit About You': Larry Lessig's Plan to Fix Democracy". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. October 13, 2015.

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• When I was out of favor and people didn't want that type of boot, flats, or high heels with the elegant, dainty things, it gave me much more energy.

  Manolo Blahnik

  High Heels, People, Energy

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I've found that Hollywood's a really honest business. They don't pull any punches. They tell you exactly what you want-I want the fake breasts and the flat car and the big pool. You know, they're real up-front about it.

  Val Kilmer

  Real, Car, Fake

  Interview with Piotr Uklanski, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 24, 2011.

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• What's funny is that male strippers don't wear thongs anymore. They wear flat backs.

  Joe Manganiello

  Males, Thongs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The problem that we have is thinking there's only one kind of feminist, and that she's politically correct and right on at all times, wears flat shoes, doesn't wear makeup, probably doesn't have sex, is very angry, wears dungarees, is a vegetarian.

  Caitlin Moran

  Sex, Makeup, Thinking

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• If I sing "you broke my heart, you left me flat," everyone knows exactly what that means - they know the story. But if I sing a line that's plaintive or wailing, people can experience their own set of emotions and their own story. Each of us might give that phrase a different meaning. It's open to interpretation, and one song becomes a thousand songs. I love that.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Mean, Heart

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• But when you are doing an animated voice, it has to have more energy than usual or it falls flat and doesn't work. For myself, I found that I had to put myself in the same physical or emotional state as Sid, in order to make that voice sound alive and authentic. So if there was a scene in which he was running, I would be running beforehand to sound out of breath. That's important because the audience can tell intuitively if it does not sound real.

  John Leguizamo

  Running, Real, Fall

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Prayer, Attitude

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.312, Knopf

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• Of course! The path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it.

  Mary Oliver

  Lying, Imagination, Heaven

  Mary Oliver (2000). “Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had to drive to Minneapolis once, and went on a back road just to see the country. But there was nothing to see. It's just flat and hot, and full of corn and soybeans and hogs. Every once in a while you come across a farm or some dead little town where the liveliest thing is the flies.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Soybeans, Littles

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.5, VNR AG

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• I've never worn flats in my life. I haven't owned any since I was a kid. I suppose the only flats I have are the shoes I wear to the gym, but I put them on just before I start to work out... I like heels.

  Nicki Minaj

  Kids, Shoes, Work Out

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.

  Lou Holtz

  Winning, Self, Tire

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• Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

  Neil Young

  Long, Band, Professionalism

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• I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and thrown flat, and given cancer, and all kinds of other things short of senile dementia.

  John Berryman

  Cancer, Thinking, Faces

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• "Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Fun, Car, Getting Older

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.

  Kevin Drum

  Ben Carson, Details, Killing

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• I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."

  Frank Deford

  Basketball, Writing, Athlete

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am a futility. The life of prayer begins with that. And God is not a comfort, to be offered like Kleenex. God is a poisoned sea, with broken syringes washing up on the beach. God is shopping malls stretching to the horizon and warplanes in the sky. God is a flat tire in a rainstorm and beer cans in the ditch, a bottle shattered on a highway and the taste of gunmetal in your mouth.

  Tim Farrington

  Beach, Prayer, Beer

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• This country belongs to all of us. We made this country from nothing, from mud-flats... Over 100 years ago, this was a mud-flat, swamp. Today, this is a modern city. Ten years from now, this will be a metropolis. Never fear!

  Mr. Lee

  Country, Years, Cities

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• Phunny Business is a breezy, vivid, funny, star-studded and delightful valentine to comedy, entrepreneurship and the All-American impulse to make something out of nothing. The story of comedy club owner/inveterate dreamer Raymond Lambert and his heroic quest to create a safe, productive place for black stand-up comedians to hone their craft and find their voices isn't just a great Chicago story and a great comedy story: it's a flat-out great story, lovingly and engagingly told.

  Nathan Rabin

  Stars, Valentine, Voice

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